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wyte

wyte is the alternative spelling of wite.

Meaning of wite

Verb (1)

wite (third-person singular simple present wites, present participle witing, simple past and past participle wited)

  1. To regard (someone) as guilty; to accuse; to blame; to fault.
    • [H]e gan fovvly vvyte / His vvicked fortune, that had turnd aſlope, / And curſed night, that reſt from him ſo goodly ſcope.1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto IIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 52, page 459
  2. To censure (someone); to mulct; to reproach.
    • [U]niuſtly thou doeſt vvyte them all, / For that vvhich thou miſlikedſt in a fevv.1595, Ed. Spencer [i.e., Edmund Spenser], Colin Clouts Come Home Againe, London: […] T[homas] C[reede] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, signature D3, verso
  3. To guard (something); to keep; to observe, preserve, or protect.

Verb (2)

wite (third-person singular simple present wites, present participle witing, simple past and past participle wited)

  1. (poetic, otherwise obsolete) To go; go away; depart; perish; vanish.

See all 6 meanings of wite

Forms of wyte

third-person singular presentwytes
present participlewyting
past participlewyted
pastwyted

Questions about wyte

What is wyte the alternative spelling of?
Wyte is the alternative spelling of wite.

Words near wyte in the dictionary

  1. Wyszynski
  2. Wyszynskis
  3. wytch
  4. wytche
  5. wytches
  6. wyte
  7. wyted
  8. wytes
  9. wyth
  10. Wythall
  11. Wytham

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